the journalist and author was lucinda franks. the book under discussion was my father's secret war and the interlocutor was dan rather. tonight we have reassembled the same team and welcome lucinda franks and dan rather back. this time we mark the publication of her newest book "timeless" love, morganthau, and me" in 2007 and commenting about the more i spoke of the human story as well of the absorbing hold and the gradual regulation - - revelations. one must admit it would be a tricky enterprise to focus a professional reporters i of the most intimate spears of the lives of those closest to her. lucinda franks manages to do this with a gift for narrative of sub consciousness and the probable the motion to the man she loves and who loves her deeply who happens to be the former chairman of this museum whose name is above the door as you entered this morning my boss robert morganthau. [applause] >> i would confess i would read more and learn more about bob morganthau that i thought i would and i look forward to learning more about

i hope you will join me to help me to join to welcome lucinda franks and dan rather. [applause] >> 84 that warm introduction. we have a lot of goals this evening and one is to have fun talking about lucinda franks great new book but i would be remiss if you would agree if we don't pay our respects to great robert morganthau use through every page of the book and a great warrior for freedom and democracy into theaters image can pacific during world war ii and a warrior for justice with a great district attorneys in the history of the country robert t. ted we pay our respects to you mr. district attorney. [applause] but this is lucinda night timeless. not only a very good read but a good book. it has been advertised as a love story but anybody recognizes it is much more than that. it is a love story and about marriage, how to make a marriage work, but also about political history of new york city, of our united states of america, a terrorism, 9/11, a behind-the-scenes of what is really like to be a district attorney in pre-and post 9/11 era and it is all those things. h

. >> the book is "timeless" and the author is lucinda franks. it's been wonderful being with you hear lucinda. >> thank you so much. you are amazing. you are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you for coming. [applause] this week in booktv's in colorado springs colorado with the help of our local cable partner comcast. next anne hyde authors of "empires, nations and families" takes a look at the multiethnic inhabitants of the louisiana purchase. >> the premise of the book is pretty simple, that no matter what time period you are talking about an american west it was never empty. so in a way it's a challenge to the traditional pioneer story where white anglo pioneer landscape so i really wanted to fill up that landscape of people before those other people came. the families that i looked at had a lot to do with why they were so many people there before 1850 and the white pioneers arrived in all of that colonial conquest created mixed blood families. so families of mixed hispanic and anglo, native american and anglo, native american and blac

the author is lucinda franks. it has been wonderful being with you they can. >> thank you so much. you are amazing. [applause] and thank you, all of you for coming. >> next on book tv, military forest history and someone talks about the first fund in 1942 none of the maritime unit. this program from the memorial in washington d.c. is just over half an hour. >> patrick o'donnell is a military historian a military strenuous written a previous but, beyond valor, operative spies and saboteurs, the printer assignment, day care return to missouri wines selected for the mind, not professional reading list. give me tomorrow and dog company. his most recent is the first -- "first seals." the numerous words are the way nick obey award in the oss sean baller word. has also provided consultation with band of brothers and for documentaries produced by bbc, the history channel and fox news. he served as a combat historian and a mean by full platoon during the battle of falluja and is in demand as an expert speaker on world war ii sabotage from the special operations and counterinsurgency on the